"...Sister of Shattering Glass from Austin’s Physical Plant Theater, written by the acclaimed novelist Katherine Catmull and enhanced with images by AnnieGunn and sound design by Buzz Moran, is what we’re telling you about here – and it’s available now...."

In the State Theater Company's new staging of The Tempest, director Scott Kanoff offers a carefully considered, vividly imagined, and vividly theatrical exploration of Shakespeare's text, sounding its themes of family, aging, freedom, justice, and mercy.

Arts ReviewOctober 26, 2001, by Robert Faires

"...Kanoff has labored to make this 400-year-old text meaningful to today's audiences however he can, whether it's using an Annie Lennox song for Miranda and Ferdinand's wedding dance, costuming Corey Gagne's Stephano, a butler, as an early 20th-century chauffeur, projecting video of Babs George's face onto an undulating wall of parachute silk to suggest the sprite Ariel's other-worldliness, or just having actors e-nun-ci-ate their lines. The thought and care invested in this is impressive and pays off in some striking ways, as with George's truly ethereal Ariel, the emergence of the King and his party through the wall of silk like ghosts, and the evocation of the tempest, with Hanket straining as he manipulates a miniature schooner while David Nancarrow's lightning stabs the air and the Gunn Brothers' thunder booms...."